The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-02-18
know n would delioht Millicent ;.

kindly Lady Valworth. Anything TO
please dear Millicent; and, besides, all
you have said about Miss Roche quite In
terests me-"
"She is well worth your interest, be-
gins Mrs. Brand warmly, when foot
steps on the landing outside check her.
"Ahl here she comes, probably. Now
you will be able to see for yourself what
a remarkably charming creature she Is"
The door, opening, admits the two
girls. Millicent smiling, and little mis-
chievous perhaps, as q sort OF armor
against the scolding impending. Nadine
calm and gentle as usual. Lady Valworth,
as she takes her hand, holds 1t kindly,
and gazes long into the girls lovely face.
Her blue eyes, innocent as summer
sky, her soft waving hair, the charm OF
her mobile mouth, all make deep i'm
preston upon the mother OF Grant
Boyle.
MRS Brand tells me you are looking
pale, my dear, she begins drawing the
girl down upon the seat near herr that
London smoke has robbed you of all yonr
pretty roses. l cannot speak from my
own experience, OF course, as this Is the
first time we have met, but 1t seems to
me that pretty child like you should
not have such sorrowful eyes"
Nadine laughs little, but the tears
rise as she does 80 to the "sorrowful
eyes"
Are you strong-are you wellS' goes
on Lady Valworth, stih keeping posses
sion of the girls hand.
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others some freinds of vours. Mr
Dnran and his little Clvtie. for example.n
Where ara the male cheeks now. the
lanafiid lidsP Gone. Uplifted are the
lids and from heneatb them two great
eaoer snarklino ewes CLEAN forth.
an 10 true NV dear ~ chotters on her
lodvshin nlcased with the effect her sr,-
nonncement is having ON the pretty child
beside her thouob She entirely misunder
stonds the nrettv cbild,s agitation I
ALWAYS have NV house full in August.
for MANY reasons. For one. the grouse:
for another. because Cant. Bovle's birth
dav (mv son. my dearl occurs in An
gnst and 7 ALWAYS give INV biu dance
then " She smiles cbarminplv and pnts
Madness hand as thouah the mention of
ber handsome son ia sweet TO her $50
Won see YOU will not be compelled to
prosy tete-a-tete with an old woman.
You shall have youth to make you merry
and take that tired look out of your
pretty ewes. Though I regret my son
| will not be with us until the seventeenth,
| the evening of his birthday fete-just
barely in time for it, in fact.''
"He is going away2'' murmurs Ma
d,ns nv UNIV ~ rat,no convers.t,on
thonob In truth she hears little and
can tbi,L ~ notbino brt that Maurice
| Onron is 70 he ot the mari, Mt the time
for which sbe has heen invited Can sbe
accent tho invitationp Dare shes Rut
Obi how good n thing It would be to be
| near him for n yboIe week--nerhans a
| fortnight,
Yes" Lady Valworth is saying apro-
nos her son che is going abroad TO Swift.
zerland, he tells me, with some bachelor
friends of his. OF course he has many
friends When you meet him." with q
proud smile, "you will understand that.
And SO you will come, my dear' Mill
cent, l hear will be inconsolable if you
refuse"
T-I should like it''-begins Nadine
stammering and faltering, afraid to refuse
afraid (far more afraid1 to accept, tina,
little struggle with her conscience no,
being vet ended.
"Then that's all right" declares Lady
Valworth heartily mistaking her indecis
ion for shyness. "Millicent, darling
calling to Miss Grey, who has Just come
Off victorious in an encounter with hel
auntie, who has, at the close of it, found
herself declaring, very much against heI
better Judgment, that Gerald Massareene
for a pauper, is a wonderfully well regu
lated young man, and that, of course
there was no harm in Miss Grey's meet
ing him at Miss Duran's afternoons.
$50 long as you remember you are en-
gagged to your cousin,n she winds up
desperately. Miss Grey shrugs her shoul
ders and mods acquiescence. The tint
is not yet ripe, she tells herself, for spring
ing the entire truth "upon her already
too distressed aunt" AS she finishe!
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